Video Games Thread

magnumcromagnon wrote:You must be kidding, New Vegas is widely considered the best of the Fallout series across the board...

Which doesn't change the fact that New Vegas was a pain to play through and that Caesar's Legion is dogshit game breaker

magnumcromagnon wrote:better stability (Bethesda Studio games are notoriously buggy)...

I will take it you haven't played New Vegas at launch

Other than that every game runs smooth after 200 patch downloads

magnumcromagnon wrote:...and do you know what's the big kicker? Obsidian Studios managed to develop the main game under 2 years (18 months to be exact), while Fallout 3 took 7 years for the main game to be developed. ...

One started from scratch while other had 90% ready made?

It's hardly a kicker, more like logical outcome


Besides, this is just personal preference

PapaDragon wrote:

New Vegas has some of those same problems but even worse was Caesar's Legion, those assholes were wearing nothing but panties but could take more damage than a super mutant in heavy armor even though they were supposed to be just normal humans

I know it's a game but they still need to at least try to get it to make some sense

 

Ah yes I have to agree. Ceasars legion as a faction is just all around silly and does drag the whole setting down with it in some ways, though I guess this is what one should expect from americans attempting to write politics.

I can put up with new vegas's bad writing, but the again I love EDF despite its stupidity and believe me EDF has almost as much stupidity in it as an american high rise.

I guess some people can better ignore the dumb crap in media than others, though what I tend to hate most is when westerners try to delve into things they have no business tring to comprehend, like politics or philosophy. I do wonder if Russian game developers actually decided to make RPG's if we would actually be able to have a game with a good political conflict.

PapaDragon wrote:Which doesn't change the fact that New Vegas was a pain to play through and that Caesar's Legion is dogshit game breaker  

New Vegas actually allows you to join the evil faction (The Legion), Fallout 3 robs you role playing with the main evil faction, and they made you a villain for sending your radiation-immune Super Mutant companion (Fawkes) in to the radioactive water purifier room. Absolute dreadful writing with terrible plot holes: radioactive 'water purifier' that makes you a villain for having the guy immune to gamma radiation fix the water purifier for you.

PapaDragon wrote:I will take it you haven't played New Vegas at launch

Other than that every game runs smooth after  200 patch downloads

Wrong again here. I pre-ordered New Vegas the Fall of 2010, played it and installed it day 1. In a playthrough with over 100 hours worth of saves in a base game install, Fallout 3 was far more prone to crash to desktop, I've experience far less CTD's in a similar playthrough despite New Vegas being more hardware intensive. Fallout 3 was prone to CTD's because of Bugthesda's stamp of save bloat with all the 'dirty' and 'broken' edits in it's packaged BSA assets. Fallout 3 far less tolerant of modding and was more prone to completely breaking with mods compared to New Vegas. But the most objective evidence of greater stability is the fact Fallout 3's world space and campaign is actually far more stable and less prone to CTD's when it's assets are being emulated in New Vegas (alongside NV's assets, campaign, and world space) with the Tale of Two Wastelands mod. The TTW mod is by far the most objective evidence of this when it can squeeze both games in to one lmao!

PapaDragon wrote:One started from scratch while other had 90% ready made?

It's hardly a kicker, more like logical outcome

From scratch lol? The Gamebryo Engine existed before Bethesda Studios 'licensed' to use the engine, Gamebase USA and Gamebase Co., Ltd created the Gamebyro Engine. The modding community with the TTW mod and the recent Frontier mod have proven that Bethesda asset creation is quite pitiful, lets not even get in to what Skyrim's modding community has done. Bethesda games have been riddled with game breaking save file destroying bugs since 1996 release of Daggerfall, and were notoriously plagued with save file bloat. Speaking about the year 1996, the original Tomb Raider game came out in that same year and had working ladder-climbing animations back then, meanwhile in 2021 Bethesda Studios still hasn't mastered how to animate climbing ladders 25 years later. The Havok physics engine was utilized masterfully in Half-Life 2, and was utilized poorly in Fallout 3. There isn't any real excuses left for Bugthesda and their corner-cutting mediocrity.

Walther von Oldenburg wrote:How to fix stuttering cutscenes in Assassin's Creed: Oddysey? The game is fully fluid during gameplay but during cutscenes it stutters.

BTW I Liked fallout but I never fully accepted it's retrofuturism. I would very much prefer a post-apo game without it and with more lush ecosystem - Fallout 4 takes place 200 years after the war and vegetation is mostly limited yellow-brownish grass and some feeble trees. IRL everything would recover in several decades.

better video card with more memory at least 8GB, hard drive defrag , more system ram ,at least 16GB
and make sure hard drive have plenty of space too , data is slower to read if your hard disk is nearly full. at least 1 tera byte free of space and frequent defragment them , windows operating system have a free defragment application included.

USA: We developed the Battlefield game, here is a cool trailer and gameplay showing our military the coolest!

Russia: OK


Tell me, would you like to play such a Russian game?

interesting Russia game , by Russian publisher. and looks fun too.
a zombie game.


The Day Before - Official Exclusive Combat Gameplay (4K) | IGN Fan Fest 2021

lyle6 wrote:Its an MMO. Hard pass.

Amen to this

MMOs are universally trash

Not trying to be Funny but Russia should do their own propaganda version of Syria in a video game.